Coast Guard Plane Crash Leaves One Known Dead
Divers recovered Lieutenant C M Perrott from a plane wreck in Tampa Bay near St Petersburg after a storm patrol. Radioman Walter O Morris and aviation mechanic William D Eubanks were missing as divers reported no sign of them. The wreck lies in 14 feet of water awaiting a marine crane. Coast guard planned a board of inquiry and noted rough seas. The crash occurred about five miles southeast of St Petersburg during tropical storm conditions. In Fort Myers area residents faced record rainfall with waters in Bonita Springs reaching decade highs amid ongoing tropical storm effects.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Charles Martin Perrott
Coast Guard
Tampa Bay
St. Petersburg
Walter O. Morris
William D. Eubanks
Nemenis
C. M. Perrott
Fort Myers
South Florida
Atlantic Ocean
Bob King
Bonita Springs
Here
Veterans Bonus Paid as Bonds Reach 3 Million Ex-Service Men
The 1919 World War bonus goes to about 3,000,000 veterans via mail from 12 Federal Reserve cities. Baby bonds totaling nearly 1.65 billion dollars move to urban and rural recipients as payments explain how ex-servicemen can cash at home. The Advance payments era ends with a nationwide distribution under the adjusted compensation program.
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Federal Reserve
How Bonus Paid to Veterans Starts With Bond Receipt
Veterans receive bonus payments by mail once bonds arrive. Present bonds to the postmaster or designated official, prove identity, and sign the bond. A receipt is issued, and a United States treasurer's check for the due amount arrives by mail.
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Washington
United States
Vast Post Office Bond Delivery Drives Cash to Veterans
The largest batches of mail in post office history moved as 38,000,000 bonds were to be sent. Government experts predicted millions of dollars in cash would reach veterans by week’s end, fueling rapid bond to cash exchanges. Special offices set up to certify bonds after veteran identification, as 45,000 post offices processed deliveries.
50 SUSPICIOUS DEATHS PROBED IN MASSACHUSETTS MILLS
Authorities in Springfield and nearby mill towns probe about 50 suspicious deaths linked to a giant insurance racket. State Detective Lt. Richard Cotter expects an arrest in days while Charles W. King of the pharmacy board sends inspectors to trace poison sales and tighten restrictions. District Attorney Moriarty had urged action to break the racket.
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Springfield
Mass
Richard Cotter
Charles W. King
State Board of Registration In Pharmacy
Thomas F. Moriarty
Eskridge Likely to Take Sentence After Murder Verdict
Houston attorneys for Rev. Edgar Eskridge, the two gun Baptist preacher convicted of killing Police Chief Ed O'Reilly of Orange, weigh an appeal. Defense leader Tom Branch calls the verdict a victory for the defense as Eskridge faces a five year penitentiary sentence.
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Houston
Tex
Edgar Eskridge
Tom Branch
Eskridge
Ed O'Reilly
Orange
Landon Plans Talking Drive in East Cities
Gov. Alf M. Landon eyed an eastern speaking campaign ahead of a western tour. Plans were embryonic pending council meetings, with Hamilton from Chicago leading the effort and Knox joining the strategy team. A Kansas session July and a mid August peak were anticipated for final campaign salvos.
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Landon
John D. M. Hamilton
London
Chicago
James A. Farley
Col
Frank Knox
Hamilton
Knox
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Wheatley Funeral Set For Wednesday in Lynchburg
Miss Helen Wheatley 19 daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralph Wheatley died after being thrown from a horse while visiting near Batchelor Louisiana funeral planned in Lynchburg Virginia and services held in New Orleans. She was a graduate of Miss McGehee and attended Vassar college. Survived by her parents and sister Miss Lee Wheatley.
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New Orleans
Helen Wheatley
Ralph Wheatley
Lynchburg
Virginia
Miss Wheatley
Betty Wheeler
A. B Wheeler
Batchelor
Wheeler
Pirates Attack U S Hospital at Amoy China
Amoy China June 15 pirates attacked the American hospital with a machine gun battle killing five men three pirates and two policemen The hospital staff Dr C H Holleman superintendent and Miss Jean Neinheiss chief nurse were prepared The attack was led by Ti Chui Hop chief of a notorious band wounded in a police gun battle and held at the hospital before being moved to jail.
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Amoy
China
Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church of America
New York
C. H. Holleman
Chicago
Jean Neinheiss
Holland
Mich
Ti Chui Hop
Minden Man Held in Slaying Case After Decapitated Body Found
E C Wren a 40 year old of Minden was jailed in Ouachita Parish for questioning as detectives probe a decapitated unidentified man found on Illinois Central tracks near Grammon Street. Officials lean toward murder and placement on the tracks. Investigators note automobile tracks to the scene and some initial confusion over cause of death.
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E. C. Wren
Minden
Ouachita Parish
Tittle
Illinois Central Railroad
Grammonat Street
Wren
Death Ends Career of British Author G K Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, known as G. K. Chesterton, British author and critic, died after a week of illness at 62 near London. Funeral set for Wednesday. His final work, completed in April, is an autobiography chronicling his literary achievements as the "Prince of Paradoxes." Chesterton's career spanned art study criticism essays poetry detective fiction and journalism.
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Beaconsfield
Eng
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Congress Advances Tax Bill Amid Conflicts After Layoff
Washington reports Congress, returning from a week off after the Republican convention, pressing the tax on undistributed corporate earnings. House conferees led by Doughton hope for end of week passage, while Senate talks and the deficiency appropriation bill proceed without resolved items.
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Washington
Congress
Cleveland
House
Senate
Doughton
North Carolina
Adams
Colorado
Patton to stand trial in quadruple McGehee slayings
George Patton a 55 year old farmer faces trial in Athens Texas on murder charges related to the four member McGehee family killings. The case dates to November 1932 when Mr and Mrs McGehee and their two children vanished. Bones were later found on Patton's farm after his second arrest and confession.
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Athens
Tex
George Patton
J. W. McGehee
Patton
Bobbie
Jess Sweeten
Dallas
Dan Hines
Texas Ranger
Sweeten
Life term faced by Walter Johnson
Alexandria Louisiana June 15 Walter Johnson Grant parish farmer was convicted Saturday at Colfax of murder with out capital punishment and faces a life sentence. The killings occurred April 2 in the woods near Colfax when officers investigated gunfire tied to the tick eradication program. Johnson was wounded in a gun battle and captured after mobs were thwarted.
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Alexandria
Walter Johnson
Grant Parish
Sherff
W. L. Nugent
D. L. Brunson
Colfax
Federal
Johnson
Baton Rouge
Roosevelt Ends West Tour With Capitol Return
President Roosevelt returns to Washington after a 4,000 mile west tour covering a dozen states. He is greeted at Union Station by Morgenthau Cummings and Farley and heads to the White House as Congress debates tax legislation. He may visit the Harvard Yale boat race in New Haven next Friday.
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Union Station
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Farley
White House
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Senate
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Philadelphia
Guv
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Conn
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Harvard
Vincennes
Ind
George Rogers Clark
Northwest
Kentucky
Louisville
Lin
Last Minute Briefs From Across the Nation and World
A patchwork of short notices from June 15 reports progress on a PWA funded rebuild in New Orleans market stalls, a rising national ad pace in 66 cities, a Leesville post office contract awarded to A P Farnsworth for 49399 dollars, whale carcass cleanup off Gloucester coast, a Nome Alaska plane crash blamed on lightning, a Seattle undersea wedding declared successful, a 94 and 96 year old father attending the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, Indian cotton stocks being drawn down with India's season ending July 31 expected smaller than last year.
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New Bern
N. C
George Isaac Hughes
Philadelphia
New York
New York Cotton Exchange Service
India
Maine voters ballot on 996 aspirants for offices
Maine voters began ballot casting for nearly 900 Republican or Democratic nominees for national state and county posts including four congressional seats. Polls opened in 633 precincts and were to close at 7 p.m. eastern standard time amid expectations of heavy turnout and slow returns as Father Coughlin campaigns supported several candidates.
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Portland
Maine
Charles E Coughlin
Francis E. Townsend
Father Coughlin
Detroit
Fire kills twenty women and children in Hyderabad theater
A fire in a Hyderabad motion picture theater last night trapped twenty women and children in the balcony, and they are feared dead today. Authorities investigation is underway to determine the cause and extent of the tragedy.
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Hyderabad
India
Opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink at 75 in Hollywood
The famed contralto, celebrating her 75th birthday, looks to a film future as she enjoys a family birthday dinner. She recalls sons lost in World War I and expresses hopes to continue acting, aiming for four to five more years, with a potential major studio project underway.
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Hollywood
Ernestine Schuumann-Heink
Europe
America
Comedienne
Philadelphia ready for Democratic National Convention
Philadelphia moves to host the Democratic convention opening June 23 with plans for hospitality. Hotel capacity is reached and the hotel association runs a clearing house for overflow rooms while officials coordinate visitor comfort and convention hall decoration ramps up. John B. Kelly, Democratic chairman, pledges lively entertainment and city observers note preparations mirror a major civic event.
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Philadelphia
John B. Kelly
Democratic
Philadelephia
Cleveland
Kelly
Earle
Hotel Association
Bunting
Convention Hall
Dionne Family Faces Seventh Pregnancy Rumor
A relative says Oliva Dionne will birth a sixth Dionne child by September 1, echoing prior reports after the quintuplets birth on May 28, 1934. The Dionne farm remains quarantined for measles as the couple avoids confirmation of another infant while one earlier child died.
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Callander. Onl
Dionne
Oliva Dionne
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